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~Special Issue Proposal~

Advanced P2P Converged Ubiquitous Networks for Security and Privacy Computing
Dr. ChangHoon Lee, SNUT, Korea E-Mail: changhoonlee08@gmail.com Dr. Shiuh-Jeng WANG, Central Police University, Taiwan E-Mail: sjwang@mail.cpu.edu.tw Dr. Liudong Xing University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, USA E-Mail: lxing@umassd.edu

Important Dates:
Paper submission: 30 Oct. 2012 Acceptance notification: 30 Jan 2012 Final papers: 28 Feb 2012 Publication: 3Q/4Q 2013

Recently, rapid technological advancements in various networking technologies such as 3G/4G cellular systems, wireless sensor networks, and vehicular networks have led to the establishment of Peer-to-Peer Converged Ubiquitous Networks. One of typical examples for the next generation P2P converged ubiquitous networks is P2P cloud computing systems. The P2P cloud systems enable convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable www.Springer.com/12083 computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. However, despite of these advantages, P2P converged ubiquitous networks have also introduced novel threats and vulnerabilities related to leakage of confidential information. Thus, it is necessarily required to develop trustworthy security and privacy systems which can be implemented by security technologies. The aim of this special issue is to foster state-of-the-art research in the area of security and privacy computing for P2P converged ubiquitous networks environments. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit complete original papers dealing with the following topics (but not limited to) of P2P converged ubiquitous networks: Security issues in P2P converged ubiquitous networks System and network security Secure protocols, intrusion detection, authentication/authorization
ISSN: 1936-6442 (print) 1936-6450 (electronic) Editor-in-Chief Xuemin (Sherman) Shen University of Waterloo, Canada Associate Editor-in-Chief Heather Yu Huawei Technologies, USA

Trustworthy infrastructures System and network technologies for P2P converged ubiquitous networks Internet of things, machine-to-machine, and cloud computing System and network architecture Management issues of P2P converged ubiquitous networks Network and computing resource management Quality of service enhancement